Ticket #14796 (pike): please commit

[Rainer Müller]

Guido Soranzio wrote:
> On trunk several pieces of Gnome 2.22 have been already committed
> sparsely without coordination: almost a nightmare.

Why is this a nightmare? Gnome ports got no maintainer, so others did
what they could.

> Let's suppose that someone (me!) is busy building Gnome again from
> scratch and he is offering his archives/packages to the others in
> order to save humanly the battery life of their portable: why
> shouldn't you trust him (me!)?

We have a lot of supported platforms: Panther ppc, Tiger i386, Tiger
ppc, Leopard i386, Leopard x86_64, Leopard ppc, Leopard ppc64.
Can you provide packages for all those?

> Currently MacPorts doesn't offer OpenOffice, nor Mono, nor KDE 4,
> nor X.org, nor Java 6: how can we afford to accomplish these valuable
> porting efforts if every committer/submitter is building again
> and again his personal tree? FreeBSD has them thanks to dedicated
> teams and a building cluster: that's the way to go.

Step up and provide ports for them if you think they are valuable.
What's the problem with building them yourself? So you can choose the
variants you want.

> [...]

> Ever heard of MacRuby? Yes, it is here on Mac OS Forge.

We have a port for ruby. If they provide valuable patches, integrate
them (upstream, as variant or just as default patchfiles).

Rainer